Quotes about Wisdom

There has been war since the beginning of time and we are no smarter than the people that have gone before us. There is apt to be some more war.

This would be a great time in the world for some man to come along that knew something.

Ah, well, I am a great and sublime fool. But then I am God's fool, and all His work must be contemplated with respect.

25th Anniversary. — Love seems the swiftest but is the slowest of all growths. No man and woman really know what perfect love is until they have been married a quarter of a century.

The beauty of a woman grows with the passing years.

Nothing ever goes away until it teaches us what we need to know.

Trifles make the sum of human things, and half our misery from our foibles springs.

The true secret of giving advice is, after you have honestly given it, to be perfectly indifferent whether it is taken or not, and never persist in trying to set people right.

Such a person can see without "pre-judice", that is, without judging in advance; he will judge only on the basis of what he has really seen for himself.

And when Wisdom, the focal point of this divine involvement in the world, finally shone forth for Christian faith as the personal Word, the human Christ, all doubts about the possibility of a reconciliation between God and the world disappeared.

The Spirit of holiness and love is also the Spirit of wisdom and knowledge about love; and they are in fact one and the same Spirit: "Truth and love are inseparable wings—for truth cannot fly without love—and love cannot hover without truth.

As the Persian poet Rumi once wrote, 'Light enters at the place of the wound.